Posts Tagged ‘Wii’
Wii helps sick kids find balance
RICE (US) — A video game is the inspiration for a computerized motion tracking system that is aiding children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or amputations advance balancing skills. Continue…
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:09 - 0 Comments
Society & Culture - Oct 21, 2009 13:01 - 3 Comments
Immersive exhibit redefines bird’s-eye view
TEXAS A&M (US)—A new virtual environment that allows humans to see and hear some of the extreme ranges of vision and hearing that animals have could help reinvent the way museums teach about the natural world. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 11, 2009 9:46 - 3 Comments
Trading in the treadmill for Nintendo
“What I wanted to demonstrate was how many more calories your body can burn by playing Wii as opposed to playing a traditional video game—and it’s quite a lot,” says lead researcher Lorraine Lanningham-Foster.
Society & Culture - Aug 4, 2009 10:25 - 0 Comments
Video games: lots of dudes, little diversity
A screenshot from Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort, released this summer. (Courtesy: IGN Entertainment)
Health & Medicine - Mar 11, 2009 15:58 - 1 Comment
‘Rewired’ Guitar Hero game helps amputees heal
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—What do you get when you mix Nintendo’s Wii video game system with rehabilitation therapy? “Wii-habilitation”—a combination that helps patients cope with the often excruciating pain of physical therapy. Now two engineers in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s National Security Technology Department have cranked that concept up a notch. (more…)
